BlackRock's new Frontiers investment trust will have large a exposure to the Middle East and Africa, but limited holdings in Asia and Latin America.
An oil and gas overweight has been the biggest driver of outperformance for the £99m J.P. Morgan Smaller Companies investment trust over the past year.
The manager of the Murray Income trust is preparing to buy into non-UK assets after shareholders voted to diversify away from concentrated UK sectors earlier this year.
The managers of the £187m BlackRock Greater Europe investment trust have significantly outperformed their benchmark thanks to an overweight to industrials and an underweight to financials.
Edinburgh Dragon Trust's Andrew Gillan has warned Asia's rapid growth will slow over the rest of this year, but is confident in the market's long-term prospects.
Commodities and resources have overtaken blue chips as investors' favoured sectors for the first time in over seven years, said the Association of Investment Companies.
Patrick Edwardson, the manager of the £393m Scottish American investment trust, has increased his UK exposure to a quarter of the portfolio, at the expense of overseas holdings.